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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 3: Welcome to I on the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera. No guest knows today. It's just you
Speaker 3: and I one, one and done and Steve mister mister
Speaker 3: t shoes another Friday. So only good news comes from one.
Speaker 3: Only two things come out of one, good news and
Speaker 3: good news. Yes, sir, your week you're busy getting ready
Speaker 3: for tomorrow's game.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, busy weekend. Uh yeah tonight Red and Blue tonight.
Speaker 4: Uh been trying to keep up with the volleyball team.
Speaker 4: I know they lost and today, yeah they lost in
Speaker 4: three that you taught today after their upset win against BYU.
Speaker 2: Did you go to that?
Speaker 3: No, okay, because I was there picking up credentials today
Speaker 3: and I saw the big crowd coming in today two o'clock,
Speaker 3: three o'clock with them noon noon. Oh that thought, I go.
Speaker 3: They're a little after that. I fact, people are still
Speaker 3: coming in. Okay, so maybe maybe they're getting Red Blue tickets.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. Yeah, you're covering that tonight, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be there your first covering. Yes, yes, how many
Speaker 3: times have you gone? I think only once once or
Speaker 3: twice maybe? Okay, and you're still going you're glutting for punishment. No,
Speaker 3: it's actually I'm not gonna poo poo it. It's it's
Speaker 3: pretty fun if you if you just want to have
Speaker 3: a good time and just watch them kind of warm
Speaker 3: up and dunk and shoot and.
Speaker 2: Do all that stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, it's good for
Speaker 2: the fans.
Speaker 3: You're covering it. Yeah, it was briant both. Yeah, all
Speaker 3: of us will be there, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 3: And then tomorrow, of course it's going to be a
Speaker 3: late night with Texas Tech. Eight o'clock yep, and we'll
Speaker 3: get up there by one thirty yep in the morning.
Speaker 3: It should be fun. No one talks about that when
Speaker 3: you're doing journalism visit, are they No?
Speaker 2: I feel like everyone's warned me about about it.
Speaker 3: But your life Yeah, and you're no sleep yeah, no, eat?
Speaker 2: Good? Yeahat well.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I like Justin and he he looks wiped out,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, that's what's ahead for me?
Speaker 3: Oh you know Justin Yeah, And he's only twelve years old.
Speaker 3: Imagine that's old, dudes. No, it's we know temperate. Then
Speaker 3: we got to kind of base ourselves. But I used
Speaker 3: to be him a long time ago, and I understand
Speaker 3: exactly what you guys will be going through. And here
Speaker 3: we are right two hours today, a big game. We'll
Speaker 3: talk a lot about the game we're gonna have. Uh Nathan, Nathan, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Nathan Geice. He's with Texas Tech Jay and I had
Speaker 3: him on maybe two months ago as we were previewing
Speaker 3: a lot of the teams in the summer for the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve, and Nathan came on and he really didn't
Speaker 3: know what to say because he wasn't sure what was
Speaker 3: going to go on. Although we thought that they were
Speaker 3: going to score a lot. I think that's coming. I
Speaker 3: mean they should be. Yeah, they're They're an efficient offense.
Speaker 3: I've said that all week and everything I've ran. They're
Speaker 3: an efficient offense.
Speaker 4: They're their running back gets close to twenty touches a game,
Speaker 4: and yet they're still throwing for four hundred three hundred
Speaker 4: yards game. So they can do it on both through
Speaker 4: the air on the ground.
Speaker 3: So they're gonna be tested as they will be tested
Speaker 3: too with the Arizona on the offensive end, I'm assuming
Speaker 3: you wentto the press conferences this week or now just
Speaker 3: Tuesday and Wednesday Wednesday? Would you would you get from that?
Speaker 3: It looks like a team that's focused, they know you. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: looks like they know not to take this team lightly.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what they're saying. Yeah. I was just gonna say, so,
Speaker 2: it looks like a team that How would you know that?
Speaker 3: You don't know until you know, right, Yeah, of course. Oh,
Speaker 3: but they're gonna say all the right things. Welcome to
Speaker 3: the world of the journalism. Are gonna say all the
Speaker 3: right things. We're gonna be prepared. We're not gonna overlook,
Speaker 3: and then you show up and they are not prepared
Speaker 3: and overlook.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's the trendsfer Arizona usually, right, right. The
Speaker 2: good thing is they're at home.
Speaker 3: They should They should have some I don't want to
Speaker 3: use the order of momentum, at least some some pride
Speaker 3: or some oomph after last week.
Speaker 2: They should.
Speaker 3: Because I hadn't seen you since last week. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you were shocked at the day one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, did you, especially because there were so many
Speaker 4: moments where Utah, it felt like they were just gonna
Speaker 4: be like, oh, yeah, we're Utah, we're here, we're at home.
Speaker 2: Well they did.
Speaker 3: They did the first two drives and they and they
Speaker 3: and they pooped their pants. And that's kind of when
Speaker 3: the game was lost with their coach, you know, saying
Speaker 3: we'll be here often, we can take we don't have
Speaker 3: to take any points, or we can try.
Speaker 2: To go for first downs and Arizona.
Speaker 3: That's when Arizona won the game pretty much, confidence wise, offensively, defensively,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 4: It was a great showing by the defense. Yeah, credit
Speaker 4: to them. So what was your pick last week? I
Speaker 4: picked Utah?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it was yeah, your your I chose.
Speaker 2: I think I think it was Illinois over Penn State.
Speaker 3: And I was wrong, you were wrong, but they did
Speaker 3: win with the points, I think, I think, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: so you went with the points obviously. Okay, well you're
Speaker 3: not doing too badly.
Speaker 2: Too bad. I tried to go for outright wins.
Speaker 4: Okay, h but yeah, then you're on wherever. Wherever I
Speaker 4: can win, I will. Do you have a pan over there?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I can get no, okay, No, don't worry
Speaker 4: about it. Okay, anybody want to call you can have free,
Speaker 4: feel free. I'm by myself today with one again. Uh
Speaker 4: five two o four one six seventy four forty. We'd
Speaker 4: appreciate the call. Get us through today.
Speaker 3: Jay is going to call at the four forty hour
Speaker 3: right time frame to do our usual picks.
Speaker 2: He's done well the last two weeks. Uh blame him
Speaker 2: for the heat because it's unusual and his picks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all I've heard is very scene, very very successful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well the last two weeks. Don't don't get all
Speaker 3: in a tiffy years two weeks. You know, there's there's
Speaker 3: just like the best, just like the football team. They
Speaker 3: have a good weekend. Oh, look at the team. Well,
Speaker 3: don't forget the last three previous three weeks. You know,
Speaker 3: the sample size needs to be improved. So I'm right
Speaker 3: behind him. I'm one behind him, so no one's talking
Speaker 3: about that. But that's okay, It's okay. We'll want to
Speaker 3: go there. Uh So if you want to call, please
Speaker 3: do uh So we'll have Nathan Ice here you in
Speaker 3: the first hour, and then of course Jake Fisher on
Speaker 3: the second hour talking about this weekend's game, uh with
Speaker 3: the Texas Tech and just his thoughts on everything eu
Speaker 3: A related. Obviously very good with his opinions. So here
Speaker 3: we go. What else is going on? You saw volleyball?
Speaker 3: What else soccer? You have breaking news? Yeah, I'll have
Speaker 3: breaking news second top of the second hour.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just it's a big weekend fairs and athletics.
Speaker 3: Because of that. Yeah, we'll get a call. Okay, let's
Speaker 3: take this call. Hey you're on the air.
Speaker 5: Hey, Steve, I was just checking in. First of all,
Speaker 5: I had called you a few days ago amongst other
Speaker 5: people trying to find out if the Red Blues on
Speaker 5: ESPN Plus, and I finally found out from Brett Pharah that.
Speaker 2: It is okay, Okay, I didn't know that. I don't
Speaker 2: think you would be.
Speaker 5: I went last year and met you in press row,
Speaker 5: and uh, I'm just it's just getting hard for me.
Speaker 6: And my age, sure, parking and going and there all night.
Speaker 5: But anyway, UH forgive me, but uh, I've enjoyed all
Speaker 5: your guests of late and uh some in multiple times.
Speaker 6: But as as kind of a.
Speaker 5: Novelty, uh to consider, if you have these off days,
Speaker 5: you could have Howard one day, you have Fat Mike
Speaker 5: one day, you could have Gabe one day and they
Speaker 5: can see what you go through. Anyway, I say that
Speaker 5: half kiddingly since you we listened to.
Speaker 6: Jim and I don't know all the names, but anyway,
Speaker 6: I just thought that might be a funny thing.
Speaker 2: You want to ruin me, that's okay, it's right, you
Speaker 2: want to ruin me. That's fine.
Speaker 6: Well, comedy is good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, yeah, but thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Anyway, did you enjoy the weekend?
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much? Did you Yeah? Did you
Speaker 2: enjoy the I need ope? His segment?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, He's very good. And uh, you know, Dave Silver
Speaker 5: is good. You know, even the people I don't know
Speaker 5: much about Quinn, they're all good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, thank you. I'm gonna be doing that while.
Speaker 6: Are you trying to pick one guy or are you
Speaker 6: gonna have multiple?
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to survive here. No I did.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I did this show by myself
Speaker 3: for three years before I asked Jay to come on board.
Speaker 3: So I'm still kind of figuring out. You know, I
Speaker 3: live in a world where everybody either has a job
Speaker 3: and can't leave for that long of a stretch, or
Speaker 3: they don't have the complete days. You know, there's always
Speaker 3: kind of have to find that right guy. At the
Speaker 3: time that Jay, he had just been let go by
Speaker 3: the sidewinders. He had nothing to do, so he said, yes.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well I guess I guess he landed on
Speaker 5: his on another foot, on another leg. Yes, with his
Speaker 5: public relations job. But it was just a funny idea
Speaker 5: I thought I throw out. And I also want to
Speaker 5: congret tell you that I really appreciate your professionalism in
Speaker 5: that Sometimes it gets old, maybe it's my lack, maybe
Speaker 5: it's ego or whatever to hear about people's vacations and
Speaker 5: families and everything else. I mean, you keep it pretty
Speaker 5: down the middle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, thank you very much. I tried to
Speaker 2: you know, I don't talk much.
Speaker 6: I just want to appreciate that.
Speaker 2: But thank you, Thank you appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no rumor that I paid him to do that.
Speaker 3: I forgot his name though, seen I didn't know what
Speaker 3: it was on on the ESPN plus.
Speaker 2: No, nor did I.
Speaker 3: The good thing is Richard Jefferson and Channing Fry will
Speaker 3: be in town government doing the same thing they did
Speaker 3: last year with their host and I forget her name. Uh,
Speaker 3: so they're going to have a lot of fun. Uh
Speaker 3: Richard with his stand up comedy and Channing with his
Speaker 3: uh street man sidekick role. Both good dudes. I covered
Speaker 3: both of them. The very quotable. One of the smartest guys,
Speaker 3: Channing Fry had loved his parents. They were great to meet.
Speaker 3: Channing was too, and Richard. He always had to be
Speaker 3: on your toes when you were talking to Richard because
Speaker 3: you didn't know what was going to come with him,
Speaker 3: good or bad, because he was angry in certain games
Speaker 3: and not so angry.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems like even outside off the court, he
Speaker 4: seems like that type of persons that he is what
Speaker 4: he is. You never know why he's joking or if
Speaker 4: he is joking at all.
Speaker 3: Well, if if I know, you don't remember this, but
Speaker 3: I did a big feature on him his last year here,
Speaker 3: knowing that he was going to leave to the NBA,
Speaker 3: and I haven't hung up on my sports room at
Speaker 3: the house and how I thought that he would be
Speaker 3: a perfect TV guy back when he was in school
Speaker 3: because he spoke so well one and two that he
Speaker 3: would be maybe even a politician.
Speaker 2: Uh. He spoke at.
Speaker 3: Bobby's Bobby's memorial at McHale Right there. You knew, kind
Speaker 3: of knew what he was about.
Speaker 2: A good dude.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Sometimes a pain in the neck, but a good dude
Speaker 3: spoke well uh and uh.
Speaker 2: Would be great on TV kind of to me.
Speaker 3: And this is this is a stretch, but this is
Speaker 3: how I felt, you know, how Muhammad Ali had this
Speaker 3: forum and he would get up and kind of speak
Speaker 3: and joke but be serious. Richard to me was that guy.
Speaker 3: He could just speak on a lot of topics. You
Speaker 3: see him now on TV with the NBA today, right,
Speaker 3: if that's what it's still called the NBA, is that
Speaker 3: he has that forum and him and him and the
Speaker 3: other guy forget his name, now, go back and forth.
Speaker 3: Richard's very well well read, he's well versed. So exactly
Speaker 3: what I wrote about many years ago is exactly the
Speaker 3: guy I see today. You know, not always fun to
Speaker 3: deal with, but but a good dude.
Speaker 4: He's kind of that person you want to have on
Speaker 4: your team. Yeah, and you love it, but when he's
Speaker 4: not on your team, right, you hate it. Right, Like
Speaker 4: we've talked about Dion Yeah yeah, oh, Deon Sanders.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, true true right, Well, and
Speaker 3: he was he was great when he played. Sometimes he
Speaker 3: was not great, couldn't Sometimes he miss free throws sometimes,
Speaker 3: but a heck of a talent, heck of a talent
Speaker 3: around the baske get. It's all natural for him too,
Speaker 3: no question.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: God gave him that leaping ability, that jumping ability, and
Speaker 3: then he has that IQ to go with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he was also on a good team with Luke.
Speaker 3: And and Lauren and Gilbert and Jason and you know
Speaker 3: the other guys and Michael Wright.
Speaker 2: That always helps.
Speaker 3: It always helps when you have five good dudes. That's
Speaker 3: why they get to the national championship game. Okay, three twelve,
Speaker 3: got about a minute or two. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: We'll have the open lines when we're not with people
Speaker 3: on the air, but you could also call us if
Speaker 3: you'd like to reach out to us when we have
Speaker 3: somebody on there, because now we have more than more
Speaker 3: than one phone, which is great, right we and we've
Speaker 3: used it a timer two right yeah, yeah, Okay, anything else,
Speaker 3: mayor mister.
Speaker 4: Just it's should be a fun weekend. It's gonna be
Speaker 4: a busy weekend, Rizi, busy weekend even just outside of that,
Speaker 4: you know, the city of Tucson is busy. You got
Speaker 4: the Tucson Meet yourself going on, got a couple of
Speaker 4: local shows that I know about just because of some
Speaker 4: friends I know. So just a bet filled weekend for
Speaker 4: the city of Tucson.
Speaker 3: Right right, Okay, let's just take the break down, come back,
Speaker 3: get ahold of Nathan and then speak to him about
Speaker 3: this weekends.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to my I on the Ball here
Speaker 3: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve. You're one.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping to have Nathan on the line right now. Nathan,
Speaker 3: are you there?
Speaker 14: Yeah there, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Great, great, yes we can. We We have a hard
Speaker 3: time word in our new studio. So we got it.
Speaker 3: We got it, Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Good here. You didn't make the trip out here, eh No.
Speaker 14: They didn't send anybody out to Arizona for this one,
Speaker 14: so we're covering it from home.
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, that's the way of the world, right journalism today.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you just gotta kind of take your battles and
Speaker 14: this is one.
Speaker 3: They just anybody else, and it's gonna be for I
Speaker 3: was gonna say it's gonna be you'd be done by
Speaker 3: two o'clock of this your deadline at least for the paper,
Speaker 3: by a long shot. Let me say this, Nathan. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you remember talking to us maybe two
Speaker 3: or three months ago. You thought about the team, and
Speaker 3: he said it's gonna score a lot of points. I
Speaker 3: think that was your one of your thoughts. Uh, they
Speaker 3: haven't been. They haven't disappointed you because they do.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 14: No, that's exactly that's kind of what I thought this
Speaker 14: team would mean. I believe I said. I wasn't totally
Speaker 14: sure what to expect from the team, and it's kind
Speaker 14: of lived up to that. The one thing I think
Speaker 14: I might have underestimated how fluid the offense would look
Speaker 14: at this stage of the season, because we had a
Speaker 14: lot of questions about who would be the receivers that
Speaker 14: kind of stand out, how the tight end rotation would
Speaker 14: kind of work, how defenses would play Todge Brooks even more.
Speaker 14: And it's lived up to the expectation and exceeded. I
Speaker 14: think the big thing is that it's the defense that
Speaker 14: has been kind of a disappointment for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. So, uh, what has been the biggest
Speaker 3: surprise for you?
Speaker 14: I think it's just the fact that they've been able
Speaker 14: to come away with some of these.
Speaker 15: Closer wins, and especially in the last.
Speaker 14: Couple of weeks. I know they're playing at home, so
Speaker 14: that plays a lot into it, but those are games
Speaker 14: where tech teams of the path, they let those slip away,
Speaker 14: they don't find a way to pull them out, and
Speaker 14: I think that's kind of elevated their confidence a little bit.
Speaker 14: They're starting to see the progress move into it. The
Speaker 14: other thing would probably just be how well to run
Speaker 14: defense has been. Outside of John Mattier Washington State, he
Speaker 14: gashed them for about two hundred yards with the quarterback
Speaker 14: run game. They bottle up running back very well and
Speaker 14: I did not see that coming. But they've had a
Speaker 14: lot of different bodies rotating in on the defensive tackle position.
Speaker 14: I think that's kept the guys pressure. They're able to
Speaker 14: attack those gaps a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you coming on here, Swant said on a student
Speaker 4: intern for Steve.
Speaker 2: A quick question, who's.
Speaker 4: Someone do you think that Arizona should be watching out
Speaker 4: for when they hit the field on Saturday, like a
Speaker 4: surprise player.
Speaker 14: I don't know if it's a surprise maybe to us,
Speaker 14: maybe he's Arizona fans. But the tight end John Carlos Miller.
Speaker 14: He came into the season. He was a transfer from Elon.
Speaker 14: He was a converted offensive lineman. When he got to Elon,
Speaker 14: he moved out to kind of the receiver spot and
Speaker 14: then he's now he's a tight end, so he's moved
Speaker 14: different positions.
Speaker 15: Came into the season.
Speaker 14: He was expected to be like the number three tight end.
Speaker 14: You're not sure how much playing time he's going to get,
Speaker 14: but he's quickly established himself as somebody that is reliable
Speaker 14: in both the run and past. He's the leading receiver
Speaker 14: I'm on tight end right now. He's had a nose
Speaker 14: for the end zone. He's somebody that I don't think
Speaker 14: a lot of people me is especially, didn't expect him
Speaker 14: to have this kind of impact on the offense, but
Speaker 14: he has to this point.
Speaker 3: When we got you what's this October, probably like July,
Speaker 3: maybe August. Talking about their history, this is one of
Speaker 3: those programs that owns Zona in terms of long history,
Speaker 3: because you know it started in the thirties, the Border
Speaker 3: Conference type of thing way back when, and and now
Speaker 3: there's there one of the one of the few I
Speaker 3: think that owns Arizona in the long standing series.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I covered a game back when you were probably
Speaker 3: not even born yet naighty nine. Arizona went in with
Speaker 3: the high hopes and they got crushed by a guy
Speaker 3: named James Gray back in the day. And then they
Speaker 3: you know, they go in thinking they're gonna win and
Speaker 3: James Gray ran all over them. What about that the
Speaker 3: history itself, because you know Texas is football country.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and you were very much correct. I was not
Speaker 14: alive for that game, was a couple of I was
Speaker 14: a couple of years away from coming to the world.
Speaker 14: I think that's kind of part of the exciting thing
Speaker 14: about the experision and realignment aspect of who got brought
Speaker 14: in this round is because these are old rivalries that
Speaker 14: can kind of be rebuilt over time. I think whether
Speaker 14: they've seen to play one in the last forty years
Speaker 14: or something like that, it was that game. So it's, uh,
Speaker 14: you get to kind of reignite these sort of things
Speaker 14: and you get to go to actitucs on which these
Speaker 14: guys have been to probably except Jalen Conyers I know
Speaker 14: he's played at Arizona State last year, so he's familiar
Speaker 14: with it. But that is kind of the interesting thing
Speaker 14: is you get to re establish these where you're not
Speaker 14: just seeing Baylor and the TCUs every single year. You
Speaker 14: get to add it Arizona, Utah, Colorado, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Right, So, how has it been? I know ASU went
Speaker 3: out there. I think they handled them pretty easily. Easily
Speaker 3: might be my word, not yours. And how was that.
Speaker 15: A few games specifically, Yeah, there wasn't.
Speaker 14: A ton of like question about who was gonna win.
Speaker 14: It was kind of tight throughout, but there was any
Speaker 14: wasn't a whole lot of intrigue. The main thing for
Speaker 14: them is that Arizona State, you know, they relied on
Speaker 14: much on Kamskataboo and Texas had bottled up. The Skataboo
Speaker 14: got loose in the pass game a little bit, which
Speaker 14: is where Tech is very much not good this year
Speaker 14: than the passing game, the secondary especially, they're dealing with
Speaker 14: a lot of injuries on the back end right now.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that wasn't too much of a question.
Speaker 14: Cincinnati was a little bit diceier, but they were able
Speaker 14: to kind of pull that off again last week. Too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been talking about this for a while now
Speaker 3: that they're pretty balanced. They have a nice running game,
Speaker 3: at least the numbers are there, and then the quarterback
Speaker 3: throws for a ton of yards. Is that kind of
Speaker 3: what you expected? We thought maybe just a lot of throwing.
Speaker 14: That was the main question we kind of had going
Speaker 14: into this year because last year Todgebrooks kind of became
Speaker 14: the offense because he had to. They were down to
Speaker 14: Baron was the backup quarterback coming into the year, but
Speaker 14: he was dealing with the shoulder injury all year, so
Speaker 14: he couldn't fling it around the field like you wanted to.
Speaker 14: They had to rely and push on that run game
Speaker 14: a lot more. And this year the question was, Okay,
Speaker 14: you got Barren coming back healthy, Taj is back, how
Speaker 14: do you balance that? And I think it's worked out
Speaker 14: really well where defense just have to play the run
Speaker 14: game or to try to shut down Taj, but that
Speaker 14: opens up the play action, that opens up the rpo
Speaker 14: downfield stuff. It's really kind of a pick your poison,
Speaker 14: which one do you want to try to slow down
Speaker 14: and the other one's going to make up for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so both teams undefeated and conference play only with
Speaker 4: one loss. Would you say that the winner of this
Speaker 4: game has a better outlook on their season than the
Speaker 4: other or is this just like a momentum defining game
Speaker 4: for both teams.
Speaker 14: I think it's more about momentum. I don't think you
Speaker 14: can really kind of point to it as how your
Speaker 14: season kind of get it going to kind of go
Speaker 14: from here, Because for Texas Tech, this is the start
Speaker 14: of their schedule getting a lot lot tougher. Yeah, Like
Speaker 14: credit to Arizona, say in Cincinnati, for improving as much
Speaker 14: as they have, but they're still going to finish at
Speaker 14: the bottom half of the conference, so you're not gonna
Speaker 14: take too much from those. But then Tech has maybe
Speaker 14: got Arizona that they still got to deal with Iowa State, Colorado,
Speaker 14: Oklahoma State. So this is just the first of the
Speaker 14: tougher games coming up, but going into their open date
Speaker 14: next week, this is very much a pride to rise
Speaker 14: this romantum, ride the momentum, get up to a four
Speaker 14: straight victory, and then go in try to heal up
Speaker 14: that defense, and then come back to the second half
Speaker 14: and really try to get it clicking again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of quick things for Arizona We've said
Speaker 3: this all week and Jay when he was here, we
Speaker 3: talked about this would be the time when they would
Speaker 3: be tested because you know, you had your four games.
Speaker 3: If they went to and two, okay, that's okay, that
Speaker 3: they'd expect them to lose to maybe Utah and to
Speaker 3: Kansas State. And they didn't look good against Kansas State.
Speaker 3: They look fantastic against the Utah, but the rest of
Speaker 3: the schedule are very at least in August. You think
Speaker 3: where they can in there, they can win there, they
Speaker 3: can win there. Now we've seen the league such as
Speaker 3: it is, b YU might be better than we all knew.
Speaker 3: Some other teams in there are we knew. What can
Speaker 3: people expect having you having covering the league from from
Speaker 3: home sites, you know, your site, other sites, because it
Speaker 3: looks like there's not an empty seat in the house.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's kind of the intriguing thing about the conference
Speaker 14: is Alkahoma State in Kansas especially look at them. They
Speaker 14: were expected to be what second and fourth in the
Speaker 14: conference going in this season, something like that, and they've
Speaker 14: just fallen off of completely of their expectation. So now
Speaker 14: it is this kind of wide open race, and I
Speaker 14: think a lot of it goes back to how the
Speaker 14: schedule breaks down, because it's not a balanced way of
Speaker 14: who's playing who is just not going to be the
Speaker 14: spine line of all. They all play the same teams.
Speaker 14: Some teams are going to play other teams, and you're
Speaker 14: another team that you're going to try to match it
Speaker 14: up with. It's gonna a completely different slate. So I
Speaker 14: don't think there's a really great way of doing and
Speaker 14: that's just kind of the nature of realignment with these
Speaker 14: massive conference numbers. Now, that's what makes every week so important,
Speaker 14: is you have to establish yourself in your games and
Speaker 14: then just let the rest of the pieces fall with
Speaker 14: the man.
Speaker 3: You've covered it for close to five years or more
Speaker 3: five years. Usually my memory jugs a little. So now
Speaker 3: that the two big guys are gone, you know, Oklahoma
Speaker 3: and Texas, it's kind of like not a free for all,
Speaker 3: but you can kind of sense, uh, it's it's a
Speaker 3: funner lead to cover because it's not automatic, and I
Speaker 3: think it's funner.
Speaker 15: The funder is not a word, but the funner.
Speaker 14: It is a little bit more exciting. I think there's
Speaker 14: a little bit more buzz because so much attention doesn't
Speaker 14: have to be directed at those programs. It's and Oklahoma
Speaker 14: was the cream of the craft for so long. But
Speaker 14: people I never forget because of how Texas ended on
Speaker 14: top last year. They were not a top dog in
Speaker 14: this conference forever, but they got so much attention because
Speaker 14: they're Texas. But now they're gone, So you have to
Speaker 14: kind of figure out who is going to establish themselves
Speaker 14: as those programs in those schools to kind of pay
Speaker 14: attention to. I think Arizona's in a pretty good spot
Speaker 14: if they can continue their forward momentum football basketball is
Speaker 14: always going to be a thing for them, But otherwise
Speaker 14: it's kind of a each school has a sport they're
Speaker 14: kind of looking at. Nobody really stands out as a
Speaker 14: whole where that's the intriguing part of it all.
Speaker 3: I think, right, did you go to the Big twelve
Speaker 3: pre you know, the big preseason.
Speaker 15: Stuff, dog media Daan Vegas.
Speaker 3: No, Okay, I wanted to ask you what was the
Speaker 3: impression maybe, what did you think the impression was from
Speaker 3: the old school teams as Utah was coming in Arizona,
Speaker 3: Arizona State, Colorado, those types of teams, because well, you know,
Speaker 3: the big, the big one, Utah looks vulnerable Arizona beat them.
Speaker 3: Colorado looked vulnerable. They played well lately. Who knows if
Speaker 3: they continue to be vulnerable.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 3: Arizona played well, then didn't play well or didn't play well,
Speaker 3: and now they're playing well. I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 3: like the all the new kids in the block are
Speaker 3: kind of still iffy as well.
Speaker 14: I think that's just the conference wide thing, and you
Speaker 14: have some teams that look amazing one week and not
Speaker 14: the next. Kansas State it's absolutely humiliated by BUYU right,
Speaker 14: they destroy Oklahoma States. It just depends on what team
Speaker 14: shows up every week, which is what puts so much
Speaker 14: more added emphasis on showing up for your game as
Speaker 14: they're played.
Speaker 15: You can't control what they can't control what.
Speaker 14: Oklahoma State's going to do before they meet up in November.
Speaker 14: All they can really do is try to win their
Speaker 14: game and build that momentum to continue it, and then
Speaker 14: once they come up to Oklahoma like, oh yeah, these
Speaker 14: guys are nothing.
Speaker 3: So we have just a couple more minutes. What did
Speaker 3: you make a prediction in today's paper? I did, Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing. Let me see, having been a beat writer
Speaker 3: many many years ago, and I think I may have
Speaker 3: joked with you about this because you know you make
Speaker 3: predictions about you sound realistic. So I was going to
Speaker 3: say that you picked Texas Tech to win, but I
Speaker 3: don't think you did. I think you picked Arizona to
Speaker 3: win by maybe ten.
Speaker 14: You are very you are very close there. I think
Speaker 14: I think it was a touchdown spread. I think I
Speaker 14: gave it a forty two to thirty five, a lot
Speaker 14: of and when I broke it down, I think I
Speaker 14: was looking at it as you know. It's all we have, is.
Speaker 15: The sample size that we have, right, It's all we
Speaker 15: can really do.
Speaker 14: And Texas Text looks pretty good in comparison to Arizona.
Speaker 14: But the one big thing that stands out is Arizona's
Speaker 14: got a really good passing game, got a great quarterback,
Speaker 14: got a great receiver. Texas Tech is horrible in the secondary.
Speaker 14: They have not defended the pass ball at all, and
Speaker 14: they're three and nine on the road. And Joey MacGuire's tenure.
Speaker 14: That's really all I needed to say. Okay, Arizona's the favorite,
Speaker 14: probably gonna win this. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, But
Speaker 14: just the evidence I have, that's.
Speaker 2: What it told me. That's funny. I think the over
Speaker 2: unders like sixty five ish. I really don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming someone said that something mid sixties and you
Speaker 3: have him in the seventies, right is that?
Speaker 2: Did you see it?
Speaker 5: Is?
Speaker 2: What is it around sixty five? Round sixty five?
Speaker 3: So you have in the seventies, And I don't disregard
Speaker 3: your your get your pick because I think that's probably
Speaker 3: about accurate. They'll cover by by one if you bet
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 14: I mean, every game Tech has has been pretty high
Speaker 14: scoring this year. I mean you go back to the opener,
Speaker 14: aveling against Abline Christian. That was a whopper of a game.
Speaker 15: What was it?
Speaker 6: There was.
Speaker 14: Eighty points, eighty some points against Cincinnati last week. So
Speaker 14: I just feel like Texas Tech offense, Texas Tech's offense,
Speaker 14: it can handle some pretty good defenses, but it can't
Speaker 14: handle good offenses. So I just think both offenses are
Speaker 14: going to flourish tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Okay, well what's the game? Both of us from our views?
Speaker 3: One last question. We're looking forward. I'm looking forward tremendously
Speaker 3: to basketball.
Speaker 2: You covered the team as well.
Speaker 14: That is my primary beat.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so good.
Speaker 3: You're well aware of the basketball importance in this league
Speaker 3: because you've been there for a long time. I'm a
Speaker 3: long time basketball writer here. We can't wait. I know
Speaker 3: I can't, having lived through the Pack ten and Pac
Speaker 3: twelve for the last thirty years, because every game is
Speaker 3: going to be fantastic, and I'm sure every game has
Speaker 3: been fantastic on the road and at home in the
Speaker 3: Big twelve.
Speaker 14: Yeah, when they release that conference schedule of that last week,
Speaker 14: now you just.
Speaker 15: Look and you can point out, Okay.
Speaker 14: This four game stretch that's super brutal, but there's not
Speaker 14: a great stretch anywhere in that schedule because you have
Speaker 14: so many teams, yeah, that can really compete at a
Speaker 14: high level. And I'm looking at everybody's preseason who they
Speaker 14: guys in FID in sixth spots.
Speaker 15: And everybody's thinking, yeah, you can go.
Speaker 14: Down to six and that's a team that's the top
Speaker 14: twenty five team on question.
Speaker 15: I think in the top ten could.
Speaker 14: Be filled with five Big twelve teams just because it
Speaker 14: is so good and they's just kind of figuring out
Speaker 14: where the rest of the rest of the middle. It's
Speaker 14: gonna be a juggernaut again. Confers is considered the best
Speaker 14: in the nation for a while. Now, welcome to Arizona.
Speaker 14: It's gonna be a struggle. Don't be surprised if you
Speaker 14: drop some random games, because that's just.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're right. No, you've got to be up
Speaker 3: for every game. Last last question I may have led IDVI.
Speaker 3: I said the other one was last question, did you
Speaker 3: go did you cover the team when they went to
Speaker 3: the final four?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 14: No, I was not down here at that point.
Speaker 3: Okay, so my question would have been Now, I don't
Speaker 3: remember when the question would have been, but it's that crazy.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: One of the issues is Arizona goes from the Pac
Speaker 3: twelve to the Big twelve. We're assuming it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 3: This is a cool Every weekend is going to be
Speaker 3: a grind. You move from one game to the next.
Speaker 3: It's gonna almost wear you out.
Speaker 2: Is that the case?
Speaker 3: And some say here at least that, okay, you're gonna
Speaker 3: get You're gonna be better for it, even if you
Speaker 3: finished fourth or fifth in the league, because you're gonna
Speaker 3: go up against some of the best teams in the country.
Speaker 3: On the other side, though, you're gonna be beat up
Speaker 3: by March.
Speaker 14: That is kind of what I've experienced and what I've
Speaker 14: seen in the last couple of years.
Speaker 15: As yes, this, I think that's kind of why it's
Speaker 15: hard to.
Speaker 14: Differentiate some of these teams is because so many of them,
Speaker 14: Like every conference kind of has a style, but I
Speaker 14: think the Big Twelve it was always that physical, grinded
Speaker 14: out rock site and it's kind of expanded to Houston
Speaker 14: and Iowa State do that, but like BYU tries to
Speaker 14: completely run you out of the gym with flying around offense,
Speaker 14: or at least they did last year. It's kind of
Speaker 14: a hybrid of everything now, so it's very different. But
Speaker 14: I yeah, I think if you look at just how
Speaker 14: Big Twelve teams have kind of stared in the UNCA
Speaker 14: term the last couple of years, it's just becomes ooh,
Speaker 14: by the time you reach margin that Big twelve term,
Speaker 14: it's like everybody's bruisom banged up and it's just hard
Speaker 14: to keep.
Speaker 3: It going at that point, right, Right, So we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens. Forty two thirty five Texas Tech losing not
Speaker 3: a surprise by the hometown beat guy because they're out
Speaker 3: of there on the road. Thanks, Nathan, appreciate.
Speaker 14: You all right, Thanks very much.
Speaker 3: You well, Nathan Guice. We'll get to our thoughts here
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xys and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball Hero Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera and with me today is Juan.
Speaker 3: We have about thirteen minutes. How much time me go?
Speaker 3: About twelve thirteen minutes. If you guys want to give
Speaker 3: us a call, we'd appreciate it. Five two oh four
Speaker 3: one six, seventy four forty I'd like to hear from
Speaker 3: you on Friday. Maybe give us your predictions over sixty
Speaker 3: five if that is the number abound that area, right,
Speaker 3: Nathan said seventy two.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't want to dispute that because I think that's
Speaker 3: probably accurate. If I were a betting man, I would
Speaker 3: give the points. I would give the points.
Speaker 2: But I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know because I don't know if you feel
Speaker 3: this way. One, do you trust this team that you cover?
Speaker 3: I think it's too early to tell.
Speaker 2: So is that right now? As of right now? I
Speaker 2: don't you need more samples from what area? Mainly the offense.
Speaker 4: You know, they still only put up two touchdowns last
Speaker 4: week for being a high octane offense, and they got
Speaker 4: some help in the kicking game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you look back now, you're being pragmatic. Thank
Speaker 3: you for listening to me. It's just ja'son not here.
Speaker 4: Holy yeah, I have to maybe I should be talking
Speaker 4: good Devil's advocate here, but no, seriously, I think the
Speaker 4: offense has shown in ability to struggle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people are valuehood that offensive coordinator change.
Speaker 2: Did you see much of a change?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I did very very little. You know, I feel feel
Speaker 2: like there is so little change, not much of a change.
Speaker 4: No, I feel I still feel like there was moments
Speaker 4: where they just didn't execute and there was like a
Speaker 4: bad time to call uh that place. So like, for example,
Speaker 4: we get that that first interception Genesis Smith and then
Speaker 4: we throw a screen pass to the short side of
Speaker 4: the field that almost gets intercepted right back to them.
Speaker 2: I didn't think that was it. We also finally got
Speaker 2: our run game going last week. It's there, it's there.
Speaker 2: You can earlier loud, you're loud, I won't fire you.
Speaker 4: Goodness, But they they found the run game last week,
Speaker 4: or inability to be effective, and I felt like they
Speaker 4: just kept trying to go through the air when they
Speaker 4: should have just.
Speaker 3: Stuck with Yeah, I think if there was a criticism,
Speaker 3: that's what it was. You're doing well on the ground,
Speaker 3: just continue to go under ground, but you still want
Speaker 3: to show what you have via the air. Have you
Speaker 3: seen anything and you're I'm gonna say this because I've
Speaker 3: from a few people, not just one or two, that
Speaker 3: there seems to be a difference in Tamac and not
Speaker 3: in his ability to play the game, but his sideline demeanor.
Speaker 2: I think there was a question or two about that. No,
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Like like someone texts me today that they were reviewing
Speaker 3: the game, and I think people read too much into things,
Speaker 3: you know, just because you do this or don't do that,
Speaker 3: that they watched the game, Tamac was not over or
Speaker 3: just not congligatory congratulates, you know whatever that world I'll
Speaker 3: try to say when the Burnett got the touchdown, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, He's not He hasn't been that guy.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think there's been a change in his
Speaker 2: demeanor at all. I think he probably just like everyone else.
Speaker 4: He gets focused, yea, and sometimes he may not recognize it,
Speaker 4: you know, truth so different. So what if he doesn't
Speaker 4: show high fiving, hugging whatever, you know, he's you know,
Speaker 4: you know, he's still locked into the game of focus.
Speaker 2: We also different exactly. Yeah, I feel like for him
Speaker 2: it was probably more of a yes, we extended that lead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, internally saying that, right, yeah, yes, like a high
Speaker 3: five two. I get that, we don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 3: I still think he's a fantastic claier. I'll never stop
Speaker 3: thinking that. But that's the second time I've heard that
Speaker 3: the you know, like after the nau gave that he
Speaker 3: was kind of like, uh, not nonchalant, but very indifferent
Speaker 3: and very different and like, you know, how come I
Speaker 3: only get to ball that to many times after the
Speaker 3: first week of craziness and he had all these records
Speaker 3: and maybe the first game was it was was a
Speaker 3: bad thing, because not a bad thing, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's set, its set, this precedent that you got it, Well,
Speaker 3: this is gonna happen all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he had that terrific game week one, right,
Speaker 4: and now he's a top Heisman contender and we haven't
Speaker 4: really seen him since. I don't think that plays a
Speaker 4: major factor, but you know, it's it's still something that's there.
Speaker 3: So so I would ask anybody who's in this room,
Speaker 3: and so I'll ask you so as this this team
Speaker 3: will go as far as whom or what.
Speaker 2: A good time. I feel like.
Speaker 4: The team will be as successful if they're able to
Speaker 4: be balanced on offense.
Speaker 2: They need they need to be.
Speaker 3: Able to balance that offense, so the run game, the
Speaker 3: run game and pass game, so the defense doesn't need
Speaker 3: to be part of that.
Speaker 4: Although you're assuming it's gonna be good. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 4: like they've had a pretty good season up to this point.
Speaker 2: The defense.
Speaker 4: The defense, you know, they did struggle first half New
Speaker 4: Mexico where they came back and I think only allowed
Speaker 4: ten points that second half. You know, they had a
Speaker 4: great game against NAU. They took for a trick play
Speaker 4: to be scored on. In that game Kansas State, you know,
Speaker 4: they they held them pretty well from majority of the game.
Speaker 2: The offense couldn't get going.
Speaker 4: And then last week, of course, you know, two interceptions,
Speaker 4: a bunch of hits on the quarterback and a lot
Speaker 4: of batted, batted down balls, a lot of fourth down stops.
Speaker 4: You know, they they've they've found their groove and I
Speaker 4: feel like the office is still waiting to find theirs.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I know, in the first half against against Utah.
Speaker 2: Noah was not all that great.
Speaker 3: You know, he kind of just got through the first
Speaker 3: half how he got through it, But he had a
Speaker 3: great second half. The passes that he threw and to
Speaker 3: Burnett a couple of times and others were spot on.
Speaker 3: But of course it's like critiquing this show. Do I
Speaker 3: make it on the way two hours perfect?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Do I make it an hour perfect? Probably not give
Speaker 3: you fifteen minutes? Man, give me, give you of good stuff.
Speaker 3: I still got a show Friday. Just get me through
Speaker 3: with some calls. But you know, if anybody wants to go,
Speaker 3: what what does this team need to do consistently to
Speaker 3: continue to win? What's what did I oppose to you?
Speaker 3: This team will go as far as what takes him
Speaker 3: there offense, defense, Noah, Team Mac. I think it's a
Speaker 3: combination of Team AC and Noah. Partly, like you said,
Speaker 3: I feel like that's always going to be there. So
Speaker 3: that's assumed, that's assumed that that's always just going to
Speaker 3: be that. I'll find a way to connect with each other.
Speaker 4: And what I've said since I think week two, the
Speaker 4: the other receivers needed a going You've seen flashes from
Speaker 4: Jeremiah Patterson, but Uh, there's.
Speaker 3: Other people who need it going and the kid from
Speaker 3: Colorado obviously Burnette going to the tight end.
Speaker 2: We got a call. Are you on the air and
Speaker 2: hind of the ball? Hello? Hello, Hello, you're on the air.
Speaker 2: I see it, Jim, Jim, what's the word? What's this prediction?
Speaker 15: Well, you just asked the question one. Do they need
Speaker 15: to do consistently to win?
Speaker 2: Yeah, run the ball?
Speaker 15: Mhmm, run the ball, And I'll predicate my whole discussion
Speaker 15: about if they run the ball thirty times this week,
Speaker 15: thirty two times, they've got a shot at winning the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll slow the other time down. They slows the
Speaker 3: other team down with the possession.
Speaker 15: I'm sorry I didn't hear.
Speaker 3: Will it slow the other team down? Thinking that they
Speaker 3: need to throw, you know, run about thirty two times?
Speaker 3: Will it slow the other team from keeping the ball exactly?
Speaker 15: And they need to win the game of possession the clock.
Speaker 15: They have not done that yet in any of these games.
Speaker 15: And that's something that needs to be done to win consistently.
Speaker 15: And you know, I'm sure Jay's happy this week. He's probably,
Speaker 15: like I told you on my test, he's probably got
Speaker 15: him going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Now, no, he does want people to relax and get
Speaker 3: off the Brennan. Uh, you're no good Brendan.
Speaker 2: You know that that kick.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, I'd just like to see more running, more
Speaker 15: ball control. And you know they were focused last week.
Speaker 15: They were they were intense, and if they continue that,
Speaker 15: they're going to be in the game and have a
Speaker 15: shot to win it.
Speaker 3: So okay, so last week you were gonna give me
Speaker 3: a few points seventeen or whatever it was fifteen, I
Speaker 3: can't remember. Now, what are you gonna do this week?
Speaker 15: I'm not gonna play this game like I told you.
Speaker 15: This game, in my opinion, could go two touchdowns either way.
Speaker 2: Wow, and they could get beat by time I think, you.
Speaker 15: Know, it depends on which Arizona we see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're you're like kwan here, you're not sold yet.
Speaker 15: No, No, then, specifically because they can't seem to control
Speaker 15: the line of scrimmage. Yeah yeah, you know, they.
Speaker 14: Had, they had running.
Speaker 15: Yards accumulated, but they still didn't pound the ball in
Speaker 15: their time after time and you know, and really bruise
Speaker 15: the other team efforts right to just take the wind
Speaker 15: out of their sales. But like you mentioned at the
Speaker 15: top of this call, if they can run the ball
Speaker 15: thirty thirty two times something like that. They'll take time
Speaker 15: of possession away from the other team, and by definition,
Speaker 15: that will reduce their scoring, right right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's what i'd like to do.
Speaker 3: You say, the first one to forty wins, first one
Speaker 3: to thirty wins, what's that?
Speaker 15: You know, that's a good way to put it. I
Speaker 15: would say the first one to thirty five wins a game.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I think that's a good number.
Speaker 3: The winner anybody over thirty five because the defense at
Speaker 3: some point has to step up, and you'd assume that
Speaker 3: Arizona has a better defense than Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: So there's your kind of advantage.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Their cornerbacks at u of a's cornerbacks last week, we're
Speaker 15: outstanding that Davis Kidds Smith number forty three Johnson.
Speaker 2: He's always around the.
Speaker 15: Ball and he tackles pretty well, and so they stepped
Speaker 15: up the defense last week. I have to give him
Speaker 15: credit for that. Yeah, but the offense got to control
Speaker 15: that ball a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks Jim, You'll have a good weekend. Yeah you too,
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. Got a got about a minute
Speaker 3: or two, right about a two minutes two I like Jim.
Speaker 3: He agreed with me about the run the ball, run
Speaker 3: the ball. Well, I think that's mostly every team, right,
Speaker 3: but but I think Arizona needs to establish that, has
Speaker 3: long need to establish that. And without their guy that
Speaker 3: would have been here from New Mexico or whatever, and
Speaker 3: that ship has sailed. I mean really, Troy and I
Speaker 3: talked about that. If they're going to say something, which
Speaker 3: they should at some point that he's coming or not coming,
Speaker 3: so let's move on from that, so you'll stop asking
Speaker 3: the questions or start assuming.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 4: And obviously I'm sure the team knows, but sure, just
Speaker 4: so they can get the game plans going, they know
Speaker 4: who's yea a definitive for who's going to be who's
Speaker 4: the day like uh Conley recent Well, I'm sure they
Speaker 4: already know. I'm sure they already That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they know, but from outside looking in, you know,
Speaker 4: they want to just know who's gonna be carrying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the it's a three headed monster, right pretty much,
Speaker 3: he's the three.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's down to two now you got Conley,
Speaker 4: resent O and uh Luke just red shirted.
Speaker 3: We just read some nose down to Twood. Good for them,
Speaker 3: except that if you get hurt, you know, I'm assuming
Speaker 3: something that may never happen.
Speaker 4: If they don't. If they get hurt, then you're kind
Speaker 4: of shaky. I feel like we're gonna see a little
Speaker 4: bit more of Brandon Johnson. He's probably probably the fifth string,
Speaker 4: but we're we just need that rotation of backs coming
Speaker 4: in and not being able to carry the ball.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I will tell we have probably like thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's take a break, then come back with some
Speaker 3: breaking news, right, And then we got Jake Fisher on
Speaker 3: the other side, and then Jay I messed myself up
Speaker 3: by no del soul stuff.
Speaker 2: But we'll do that later